{"id":6000,"date":"2022-11-04T15:45:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T15:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/?p=6000"},"modified":"2022-11-04T15:46:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T15:46:01","slug":"education-minister-directs-nerdc-to-remove-sex-education-from-basic-school-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presspay.ng\/news\/education-minister-directs-nerdc-to-remove-sex-education-from-basic-school-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Minister Directs NERDC to Remove Sex Education from Basic School Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu has directed the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) to remove sex education from the basic education\u00a0teaching curriculum, saying it is the job of parents and religious leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister who gave the directive\u00a0while speaking at the\u00a0Ministerial Session of the 66th National Council on Education (NCE) meeting in Abuja on Thursday, November 3 said he was unimpressed with the inclusion of the course in the school curriculum and immediately directed that it be removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the minister, teaching sex education in schools would\u00a0further corrupt little children who are already having access to phones and technologies, adding that as a religious country, the morals and values taught in churches and mosques are enough\u00a0to bring up a child with good character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister also added that the increasing advocacy for sex education in schools is targeted at undermining and destroying the moral and religious fiber of society and it\u2019s being promoted through social media and other forms of westernization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: myschoolnews<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#PressPayNg#EduSAVINGS#EduLOANS#EduSURE#INTERNSHIP#SCHOLARSHIP#EduHEALTHMAINTAINANCE#ENTERPRENUERSHIP#PressPayNg#TERTIARY#EDUCATION#TUITION#FEES#UNIVERSITY#POLYTECHNIC#MONOTECHNIC#FELLOWSHIP#COLLEGEOFEDUCATION#HOLIDAYJOBS#SOFTSKILLSTRAINING<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu has directed the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) to remove sex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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